Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Truth
"Okay, stop talking nonsense, let's get down to business." Miss Bai glared at me.
"What's the matter?" I asked.
Miss Bai said that Director Zhang had just come over and said that the village chief had woken up, and that he was going to interrogate the village chief later, so let's go too.
When we passed, we saw the village chief lying on the hospital bed covered in bandages and his eyes blank. To my surprise, without any offensive strategy, the village chief explained the real reason why he imprisoned Yang Niansheng. The village chief told us a tale that resembled the Arabian Nights...
According to the village chief, I don't remember what year it started, he had a strange dream in which he was tied to an altar with a thick chain. He couldn't see what he looked like, only that he had a hairy body, sharp claws, and long teeth. Then he saw many people in strange clothes, circling around him, and their mouths came out with a voice similar to chanting, as if they were performing some kind of ritual. Then, he was untied from the altar by a dozen men and dragged into a cave... Every time he dreamed of this, the village chief would wake up. Since he often had this dream, the village chief thought that it must be his past life. It's just that he is very strange that his past life seems to be some kind of animal, not a human.
The village chief was terrified, he didn't know why he suddenly dreamed of his past life. So he looked for someone everywhere to interpret the dream, until later, he listened to the words of a wild Taoist priest, and the Taoist priest told him that dreaming of being an animal in his previous life was a very unlucky thing, and sooner or later there would be a vicious disaster, and it was necessary to use virgin blood to turn evil into good fortune. So, the village chief seduced and raped a virgin in the village. I don't know if it's a psychological effect, but since then, the village chief hasn't had that dream again. However, since then, he has been addicted to drugs, and when he sees a young girl, he will have a kind of uncontrollable **.
In this way, until one day four years ago, the water stream in Gushui Village dried up. Since then, the village chief has often heard a faint voice calling him in his sleep at night. The village chief felt that the thing that summoned him was hidden in the stream, but he didn't have the courage to go and see it at night.
It wasn't until later that Yang Niansheng and his godson found him and told him that there was a monster lurking in the cave upstream of the stream. After that, Yang Niansheng's godson went to Stone Village to find a way to deal with that monster. The village chief took Yang Niansheng home, and after arriving home, the more the village chief thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong. Through the description of the monster by Yang Niansheng's godson, he had a strange illusion that the thing lurking in the mountain stream was himself, another self...
He didn't have the courage to go to Shanxi to see the monster, and since Yang Niansheng's godson was going to the place where the monster was imprisoned to find a way to deal with it, he decided to go over and have a look. He imprisoned Yang Niansheng in the cellar and lied to his family that he was going out of the mountain to run errands, and then he went out.
In this way, the village chief came to Stone Village, a place he had never been to, he lied that he was passing by, and under the pretext of being thirsty and begging for water, he inquired about the news in the village, and as a result, he saw something, he saw those people in his previous dreams, the villagers of Gushui Village, they were exactly the same as those people in his previous dreams, but they were not wearing that kind of strange clothes...
When the village chief said this, Miss Bai, Director Zhang, and the three of us were already stunned, and the whole ward was silent, as if there was a strange air current surrounding us, circling and wandering.
After a while, I shuddered and asked in a low voice, "You mean, the villagers of Stone Village look exactly like the people in strange clothes you saw in your previous dreams?" ”
"Hmm." The village chief said dumbly, "I was also frightened, I don't know what happened..."
The village chief said that as if he had lost his soul, he stumbled out of the village and wandered aimlessly outside the village for a day. In the middle of the night, he decided to go back to the village to explore, and as a result, he ran into Yang Niansheng's godson who had rushed to Stone Village and had been hiding nearby.
The village chief lied that he had come to help him find a way to deal with the monster in the mountain stream, so from then on, the two of them joined forces and sneaked into the stone village every night to find the underground passage that Yang Niansheng said he had entered. However, Yang Niansheng was crazy, and he couldn't describe where the underground passage was, and the two of them couldn't find it for a long time.
Later, the food they had brought with them was gone. Yang Niansheng's godson suddenly had a whimsical idea and lied to the villagers of Stone Village that the mountain was about to collapse, so they moved out of the village. In this way, he and the village chief not only got enough food from the villagers, but also could find the underground passage in the village in all directions. The village chief had met with the villagers, so when he called the villagers together and told them that the mountain was about to collapse, the village chief did not show up.
The day after the villagers moved out of the village, the two men found the underground passage in a half-collapsed dilapidated house that they had not looked for before. Following the underground passage, they came to the arsenal located in the belly of the back mountain, which was abandoned by the Eighth Route Army. And they found a stone chamber, and on the fifth day of living in the chamber, they found that there was a secret door in it, and then they entered another cave.
When they followed the cave to the side cave where the monster was imprisoned, the village chief was completely shocked, for the side hole, and the thick chain in the side hole, were exactly what he had seen in his dreams!
At that moment, the village chief completely believed in the dream, and believed that the thing bound by the chain in the dream was his past life. He thought that the dream might be suggesting to him that the villagers of Stone Village were descendants of the people who had subdued and imprisoned him.
As a result, the village chief believes that the monster hidden in the mountain stream of Gushui Village is another self. But what Yang Niansheng and his godson are looking for is a way to deal with themselves. The village chief naturally wouldn't let them succeed, so he secretly put a toadstool from the mountains in the food, which Yang Niansheng's godson ate and killed him. As for Yang Niansheng, the village chief can't kill him yet, he has to rely on Yang Niansheng to take him to meet that monster...
After returning to Gushui Village, the village chief recuperated for a few days. It takes a lot of courage to meet that monster, and the village chief doesn't know why there is such a bizarre thing in the world, could it really be that there is another self, surviving in another form? If two people meet each other, what will happen? … The next day, the village chief finally made full mental preparations, but on the day he was about to let Yang Niansheng take him to meet the monster, he suddenly heard that there were a few outsiders in the village who were looking for an old man. There is no doubt that those outsiders are me, Miss Bai, and Yang Shujun...
After listening to the village chief's account, I realized that the person I and Miss Bai saw in the stone room of Stone Village, that is, Yang Niansheng's godson, was killed by him. The reason why the village chief insisted on not revealing the true reason why he imprisoned Yang Niansheng was because he knew that the crime he had committed was not enough to shoot him, and once he confessed the truth, it would inevitably lead to the fact that he killed Yang Niansheng's godson...
At this point, the truth can be revealed. Yang Niansheng We have found and know the cause of his godson's death. As for why the head of Gushui Village had that strange dream, and whether the monster was another him as he said, we have no way of knowing. As I said at the beginning of this article, there are many unknowns in this world.
We don't know, let alone what happened to Xiaoqing, whether the two days of delay on the way back to his hometown from Beijing were the village where his family lived in seclusion, so we can't find out the reason for his trouble. Perhaps, this is his fate. As for the legendary 'tooth', we haven't seen it, and I don't know who stole it from Yang Deqiang, and where it has ended up at the moment.
The day after we learned the truth from the village chief, we left the mountainous county and sent Yang Shujun and his uncle back to the village where Yang Shujun lived, and Miss Bai and I returned to Shandong. Miss Bai drove me all the way to Fengyang Town.
Along the way, we were silent, and the afterglow of the setting sun shone on Miss Bai through the car window, gilding her with a halo of holiness.
As she got closer to the town, Miss Bai slowed down the car.
"We... Will we meet again? I asked softly.
"Let's look at fate." Miss Bai smiled faintly.
"Hmm."
"Ah Leng, you remember."
"Huh?"
Miss Bai's shoulders trembled, and her voice carried a crying tone, but she bit her lip tightly and held back her tears.
"After separation, I won't contact you, and you don't want to contact me."
"Why?"
Miss Bai forced a smile, her appearance was extremely distressing.
"Because, I can't disturb your life, let alone destroy the relationship between you and your girlfriend, thank you Ah Leng, thank you for the happiness you have brought me during this time, let me know that in this world, there is still a thing called ** love, knowing you, having you with this period of time, is the greatest happiness in my life, I am already very content, I can't be too greedy..."
At that time, the light slipped away with the wind, and when youth was difficult to turn back, I remembered that year, that month, at that time, we played the worn-out guitar and drank the astringent and spicy liquor, happy without sorrow. The song of the years, there is no immortality, the road of life, there is always an end, cherish every day, friends, seize the time, let it run with yourself, when the fire of life burns out, smile and say to the world, remember, we have been here, we have had...
When I got out of the car, Miss Bai didn't say a word, but put on sunglasses, flirted her head, and the car turned around and walked away. Looking at the car in the distance, I smiled bitterly, wiped my eyes, pushed open the courtyard door, and then, I saw the smiling Master and Xiang Feng, who had been standing in the courtyard waiting for me for a long time. Master measured with Qimenbu, I will be back today...
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